Elderly gamblers busted in casino raid

elderly gamblers arrested in Sanxia District

January 28, 2019January 28, 2019 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment gambling, illegal casino, New Taipei City

Eight people, including seven elderly patrons were arrested in New Taipei City’s Sanxia District when police raided an illegal casino, Saturday, January 26. After three reports earlier this month led police to the wrong addresses, the officers finally honed in on a house on Baiji mountain, 1.5 kilometers from the misreported location. Inside the house, police arrested 8 people with a combined age of 570 years. While one of the arrested was only 47, the oldest was an 84-year-old woman,

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January 19, 2019 Phillip Charlier 1 Comment death penalty, suicide, Taipei Detention Center

A prisoner awaiting execution in the Taipei Detention Center was found dead yesterday, January 18, with more than 50 rubber bands around his neck. Chen Yu’an (陳昱安) was handed the death penalty by the Supreme Court, January 2013, for the murder of his father in 2010. Chen, 37 years old at the time, had been kicked out home, and bore resentment over favoritism shown to his brothers. In September of that year, Chen cut his father down with a meat

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January 14, 2019January 14, 2019 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment domestic violence, Luzhou District, New Taipei City, vigilante

A vigilante mob gathered outside a gated community in Luzhou District, New Taipei City, and a small group managed to infiltrate the building to beat up a man after a video of a domestic violence incident was shared on social media, yesterday, January 13. On the evening of January 12, a 42-year-old man named Lin sent his 12-year-old son out to buy some spicy meatballs. However, the son returned with un-spiced meatballs. Lin flew into a rage, demanding to know

illegal migrant workers arrested in Taitung

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January 12, 2019 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment foreign workers, illegal immigration, Taitung

Police in Taitung City enforcing a ban on gravel trucks on restricted roads found a group of illegal Vietnamese workers hiding in the back of a truck. Police officers pulled over the truck at around 4:00pm Thursday, January 10, on Heping Road in Beinan Township at a road-stop manned by 10 police officers. Officers reported that the truck driver had a negative attitude, and was uncooperative and evasive when questioned. One of the officers noticed suspicious movement under the black

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January 1, 2019January 1, 2019 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment Keelung City, suicide

The driver of a hospital shuttle bus stopped his vehicle on an elevated expressway ramp and jumped 20 meters to his death in front of passengers and his girlfriend in Keelung City last night, December 31. At around 11:45pm, the 38-year-old driver named Zhang took 7 passengers, all hospital staff of Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, towards Keelung City. Zhang’s girlfriend, a 33-year-old Vietnamese national named Chen, sat beside the driver. Just minutes before midnight, when most people were counting down

officer charged with marijuana possession

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December 26, 2018December 26, 2018 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment cannabis, marijuana, Taichung City

A police officer in Taichung City was arrested December 23 after an investigating officer responded to an ad on the Internet, and met with the man to purchase a small quantity of marijuana. The 22-year-old police officer named Chen, confessed to his crime and told investigators and prosecutors that he had purchased the cannabis online for his own use, but after smoking it once, he felt that he didn’t like the taste, and decided to get rid of the rest

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December 18, 2018December 18, 2018 Phillip Charlier 4 Comments charity, compassion, New Taipei City

Cash donations, free legal services and advice, use of company cars, and help with tuition fees are among the offers of support that are flooding in for a young man who crashed into a group of Ferrari sports cars on Sunday morning, while working to support his widowed mother, and family. The 20-year-old man named Lin had finished work late Saturday night at a barbecue restaurant, and had set off at around 5:00am to make deliveries for his mother’s Joss

a boy in a wheelchair while in hospital for treatment and a check-up in child abuse case

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September 23, 2018September 23, 2018 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment child-abuse, Hsinchu County, vigilante

A man and his partner moved out of their residence overnight, after a case of child abuse was uncovered in Hsinchu County, yesterday, and pictures of a malnourished, battered boy were posted on Facebook. A woman who remains unnamed in media reports, yesterday paid a surprise visit to her two sons, who live with their father, only to find her three-year old son malnourished, covered in bruises and faeces, and locked out on a balcony with cable ties wrapped around

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August 31, 2018 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment demographics, ethnicity, immigration, multiculturalism, population

[Picture used without permission from ANS] Taiwan’s National Development Council (NDC) today issued a report that predicts the nation’s population will begin to decline in 2022, three years earlier than previous estimates, and NDC Minister Chen Mei-ling said that Taiwan will be a multi-ethnic country in the future. The NDC functions as the policy planning agency of the Executive Yuan, and releases population estimates every two years. The previous report, released in 2016, estimated that Taiwan’s population will begin to

Ma Ying-jeou and statue of comfort woman

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August 16, 2018August 16, 2018 Phillip Charlier 2 Comments comort women, Japan, kmt, Kuomingtang, Tainan

The installation of a statue in Tainan City commemorating “comfort women” was “extremely regrettable,” said Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, Wednesday. Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association (JTEA) reiterated its government’s regret over the statue, saying that the installation and display of “comfort women” statues runs against the Japanese government’s position and its efforts in facing the issue. Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Andrew Lee said that Taiwan was still pushing Japan on the issue, but the statue has nothing to do

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Elderly gamblers busted in casino raid

Death row inmate commits suicide using rubber bands

Vigilante mob gathers after video of domestic violence incident shared on social media

11 illegal migrant workers found hidden in back of truck in Taitung City

Driver stops bus and jumps to his death in front of startled passengers

Police Officer Arrested for Selling Pot

Support Pours in for Young Man who Crashed into Ferraris while Helping Widowed Mother

Father Flees after Public Outrage over Child Abuse Case

Taiwan will be a Multi-ethnic Nation in the Future: NDC issues Revised Population Estimate

Statue of Comfort Woman unveiled in Tainan Rued